Plant Extracts Mediated Metal-Based Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Biological Applications

The vastness of metal-based nanoparticles has continued to arouse much research interest, which has led to the extensive search and discovery of new materials with varying compositions, synthetic methods, and applications. Depending on applications, many synthetic methods have been used to prepare t...

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Published in:Biomolecules (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-04, Vol.12 (5), p.627
Main Authors: Adeyemi, Jerry O, Oriola, Ayodeji O, Onwudiwe, Damian C, Oyedeji, Adebola O
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino acids
biological properties
Biology
Gold
Green Chemistry Technology - methods
metabolite
Metal ions
Metal Nanoparticles - chemistry
metal-based nanoparticles
Metals - metabolism
Microorganisms
Morphology
Nanomaterials
Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology
Phytochemicals
Plant extracts
Plant Extracts - chemistry
Plants - metabolism
Review
Silver
Toxicity
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Summary:The vastness of metal-based nanoparticles has continued to arouse much research interest, which has led to the extensive search and discovery of new materials with varying compositions, synthetic methods, and applications. Depending on applications, many synthetic methods have been used to prepare these materials, which have found applications in different areas, including biology. However, the prominent nature of the associated toxicity and environmental concerns involved in most of these conventional methods have limited their continuous usage due to the desire for more clean, reliable, eco-friendly, and biologically appropriate approaches. Plant-mediated synthetic approaches for metal nanoparticles have emerged to circumvent the often-associated disadvantages with the conventional synthetic routes, using bioresources that act as a scaffold by effectively reducing and stabilizing these materials, whilst making them biocompatible for biological cells. This capacity by plants to intrinsically utilize their organic processes to reorganize inorganic metal ions into nanoparticles has thus led to extensive studies into this area of biochemical synthesis and analysis. In this review, we examined the use of several plant extracts as a mediating agent for the synthesis of different metal-based nanoparticles (MNPs). Furthermore, the associated biological properties, which have been suggested to emanate from the influence of the diverse metabolites found in these plants, were also reviewed.
ISSN:2218-273X
2218-273X
DOI:10.3390/biom12050627